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The Pirate Queen by Unknown
epub |eng | 2019-05-29 | Author:Unknown

* * * ‘It’ll take time,’ she told Cuckold Dick. ‘Even if O’Neill pays her for carrying his guns, Herself won’t leave Connaught just now with the MacWilliamship at stake. ...
( Category: Contemporary January 17,2023 )
The Crickets Dance by Deborah Robillard
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Robillard

15 “Memories” I finally had a reason to smile, other than the fact that I was thrilled to find the old journal and read its long-kept secrets and history. The ...
( Category: Women's Fiction January 17,2023 )
Music From Beyond the Moon by Augusta Trobaugh
epub |eng | 2014-11-29 | Author:Augusta Trobaugh

Chapter Thirteen Weeks passed, and slowly but surely, the changes everyone in the community were expecting to see in Rebecca’s life started happening. All of a sudden, Rebecca seemed to ...
( Category: Women's Fiction January 17,2023 )
The Slave Girl by Buchi Emecheta
epub, pdf |eng | 1977-01-15 | Author:Buchi Emecheta

9 A Rich Religion Ma Palagada’s son did not turn out after all to be as bad as Ojebeta had been led to expect. At least he did not treat ...
( Category: Contemporary January 17,2023 )
The Financial Parallax by David Bocek
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:David Bocek [BOCEK, DAVID]

CHAPTER FOUR In October of 2025, Republican Senator Phinneus Mace of New Hampshire decided that he wanted to re-open the Investigation into the Death of Senator Calvin Brookingham. Senator Mace ...
( Category: Contemporary January 17,2023 )
Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
epub |eng | 2016-10-22 | Author:Katherine Mansfield [Mansfield, Katherine]

( Category: Contemporary January 17,2023 )
The Inheritance of Exile by Susan Muaddi Darraj
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Susan Muaddi Darraj

Costumes The day my father was robbed was the worst in our lives. “Only so far,” my mother warned. “There are always things worse in this life.” But this made ...
( Category: Contemporary January 17,2023 )
Giants in the Earth by O. E. Rölvaag
epub |eng | 2022-03-26 | Author:O. E. Rölvaag [Rölvaag, O. E.]

X Table of Contents Beret struggled with many thoughts these days. . . . Wasn't it remarkable how ingeniously Destiny had arranged it all? For ten long years he had ...
( Category: Contemporary January 17,2023 )
The Professor's Daughter by Emily Raboteau
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Raboteau

RESPIRATION Click click boom. Breathe in. Click click boom. Breathe out. Click click boom. Breathe in. Click click boom. Breathe out. Click click-boom. Breathe in. Click click boom. Breathe out. ...
( Category: Contemporary January 16,2023 )
The Moroccan Daughter by Deborah Rodriguez
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Rodriguez [Rodriguez, Deborah]

Samira had left on the early morning bus, sneaking out of the riad before the family awoke. She ached upon leaving behind the house that had been her home for ...
( Category: Contemporary January 16,2023 )
The Distant Shores: Family secrets and enduring love--from the Number One bestselling author (The Deverill Chronicles 5) by Santa Montefiore
epub |eng | 2021-07-08 | Author:Santa Montefiore

* * * Colm sent Mrs B to bed and he and Margot remained, tidying up the room and dispensing of every trace of alcohol that they could find in ...
( Category: Contemporary January 16,2023 )
Call Numbers by Syntell Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Syntell Smith

The two jogged back inside the branch, hyped about dispatching the drunks. Angie was just finishing a checkout as they took their places with no one noticing. “Thanks,” Robin said ...
( Category: Contemporary January 16,2023 )
Ruin of the Soul by Jean Dorricott
epub |eng | | Author:Jean Dorricott [Dorricott, Jean]

Chapter 9 Low cloud and damp drizzle accompanied the following morning, forming droplets on every twig and grey lichen tassel. They showered Rachel as she strode through the reserve woods ...
( Category: Contemporary January 16,2023 )
Antigua and My Life Before by Marcela Serrano
epub |eng | 2000-10-10 | Author:Marcela Serrano

Once we were asked, in my new school, to fill out a form about our antecedents and family: the number of brothers and sisters, the father’s activities, the mother’s, and ...
( Category: Contemporary January 16,2023 )
Stories from the Flannery O'Connor Award by Nancy Zafris
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Nancy Zafris

Emily Recites the same history to each new therapist, a narrative that has been reduced over time to formula, an incantation of sorts whose individual words mean nothing. “I was ...
( Category: Contemporary January 16,2023 )

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